History of the Tuskegee Land Utilization Project
Subtitle: Macon County, Alabama, 1935-1959
By: Robert G. Pasquill, Jr.
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Montgomery, AL
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781588382054
Subjects: Tuskegee Land Utilization Project -- History; Tuskegee National Forest (Ala.) -- History; Land use, Rural -- Alabama -- Macon County -- History; Land use -- Alabama -- Macon County -- Planning -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Infertile soil, tenant farming, and "The Big Hungry"; title: The Resettlement Administration and Farm Security Administration; title: A planned land use demonstration is proposed; title: Description of the Tuskegee project area; title: The Tuskegee planned land use demonstration project, 1935/1936; title: The Prairie farms resettlement project; title: The Tuskegee project, 1939/1949, SCS supervision; title: The Tuskegee project, 1949/1959, East Alabama district SCS lease; title: The Tuskegee National Forest is created, November 1959; title: Conclusions: discussion of success and failure.